A review of optimization approaches for controlling water-cooled central cooling systems

L Jia, S Wei, J Liu - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Buildings consume a large amount of energy across all sectors of society, and a large
proportion of building energy is used by HVAC systems to provide a comfortable and healthy …

Optimal chiller loading by improved sparrow search algorithm for saving energy consumption

Z Xue, J Yu, A Zhao, Y Zong, S Yang… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aims to reduce the energy consumption in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
(HVAC) system with improper load distribution. An efficient optimization method, the …

Chiller system optimization using k nearest neighbour regression

WT Ho, FW Yu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
This study applies the k nearest neighbour (kNN) regression to ascertain optimal operating
strategies for a chiller system, hence lowering its carbon emissions. First, 19 operating …

Optimal chiller loading in HVAC System Using a Novel Algorithm Based on the distributed framework

J Yu, Q Liu, A Zhao, X Qian, R Zhang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Aimed at the optimal chiller loading (OCL) problem in heating, ventilation and air
conditioning (HVAC) system, a distributed framework for HVAC control is introduced and …

Optimizing multi-chiller dispatch in HVAC system using equilibrium optimization algorithm

F Sun, J Yu, A Zhao, M Zhou - Energy Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) system accounts for almost half of the
total electricity consumption in buildings, and the chillers in HVAC system are the major …

Flow measurement uncertainty quantification for building central cooling systems with multiple water-cooled chillers using a Bayesian approach

S Sun, S Wang, K Shan - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Measurement uncertainty has significant negative impacts on the operation and control of
heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. It is a big challenge and should be solved …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal chiller loading solution for energy conservation using Barnacles Mating Optimizer algorithm

MH Sulaiman, Z Mustaffa - Results in Control and Optimization, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an application of evolutionary optimization algorithm, Barnacles Mating
Optimizer (BMO) to solve the optimal chiller loading (OCL) problem for minimization of the …

Energy efficient hourly scheduling of multi-chiller systems using imperialistic competitive algorithm

F Jabari, M Mohammadpourfard… - Computers & Electrical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The hour-ahead optimization of the multi-chiller systems is necessary in order to minimize
their power consumption and save energy. In this paper, an imperialistic competitive …

Optimal consumption modeling of multi–chiller system using a robust optimization algorithm with considering the measurement, control and threshold uncertainties

D Chen, X Hu, D Meng, S Leto - Journal of Building Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, one of the best options for reducing energy consumption is optimizing energy
management of multi-chiller systems in large scale and industrial plants. Different control …

A non-cooperative game-based distributed optimization method for chiller plant control

S Li, Y Pan, Q Wang, Z Huang - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
The heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems account for about half of the
building energy consumption. The optimization methodology access to optimal control …